Publications & Insight

FAQs

Can tree planting solve climate change?

Tree planting schemes have always been popular, but never more so than today, where they are frequently promoted as a proposed solution to the climate crisis. There is a long, painful history of bad tree plantation projects,...

01/07/2020

Blogs

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: A Pariah State?

Time overdue for the EU to end its role in Brazil’s environmental and social crimes  

01/07/2020

FAQs

What are negative emissions?

Negative Emissions is one of the terms used by climate scientists in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Other terms include Carbon Dioxide Removal...

30/06/2020

NGO Statements

Direct threat to Indigenous territories of Mato Grosso and Brazil

Cuiabá, June, 22nd 2020 Civil society organisations are concerned about Brazilian State Bill 17/2020, proposed by the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes. Contradicting the federal legislation, this Bill authorises the...

26/06/2020

Briefing Notes

Biodiversity first: How European forests can help tackle the climate crisis

The European Union (EU) has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. This will require us to both drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to increase carbon dioxide removals – negative emissions.

This briefing shows why...

25/06/2020

Blogs

Hungarian Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling is a blow to intensive forest management practices

On June 2020, the Hungarian Constitutional Court improved the nature conservation and biodiversity objectives of forested Natura 2000 sites. Hungarian civil society organisations welcomed the decision and hope that it will improve...

24/06/2020

Forest governance, Annual Reports

Annual Report 2019

The world’s forests, and the rights of many who depend on them, remained under assault in 2019.

These attacks came from many directions: from the erosion of environmental and human rights protections in Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro, to the Amazon fires; from the EU’s devastating bioenergy policy, to its raft of Free Trade Agreements with forested countries to increase our insatiable consumption of products that drive deforestation; from a lack of secure tenure rights for people depending on forests for their survival, to failures of transparency and accountability in the forest sector… 

23/06/2020

Audited Finances

Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2019

16/06/2020

Press Releases

EU failed to consider environmental and social impacts of South American trade deal: complaint

The European Commission has ignored its legal obligation to ensure the trade agreement with the ‘Mercosur’ group of South American countries will not lead to social, economic, environmental degradation and human rights violations,...

15/06/2020

Forest Watch

Forest Watch 256 - June 2020

Forests and trade, Danish aid for biomass and what to expect from the German Presidency

10/06/2020